RIP: A 2010 roll call of animal friends

We lost a lot of furry and feathered friends during the past year, including cats commons regular Rosco Pico, who liked to show off on Fangs Friday.

Is there a pet you would like to add to the 2010 memorial?

National Geographic Channel

Cesar Millan mourned the death of his 16-year-old pit bull Daddy, who died in February. Daddy played a big role in The Dog Whisperer’s canine rehabilitation programs and TV series.

Houston Humane Society

An abuse survivor, Burnie was a star at the Houston Humane Society and often made appearances as the HHS mascot. The 17-year-old hound died in May.

Noah Berger: AP

Miss Ellie, a former winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest who became celebrity, died in June. The blind Chinese Crested Hairless was 17.

Kevin Fujii: Chronicle

Noel, a 15-year-old Masai giraffe at the Houston Zoo, died July 12 during childbirth and her calf did not survive. Noel is survived by Neema, born in August 2007, and Miles, born in January 2009, who have a new home in the zoo’s African Forest.

Dave Rossman: Chronicle

Dixie the chihuahua, who was turned into Citizens for Animal Protection shelter when she was four months old, found a home with Trisha Royal, CAP’s Community Outreach Director. As Royal’s companion, Dixie served as CAP’s goodwill ambassador for 13 years. Dixie died in July.

AP

Charlie the chimpanzee, who had to break a smoking habit, died Oct. 5 at the small Bloemfontein Zoo in South Africa. A zoo spokesman said the chimp, who was about 52, apparently died of old age.

AP/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

After being deemed the world’s largest snake by Guinness World Records, Fluffy died in October at a zoo in Ohio. She was 18 years old, 24 feet long and weighed 300 pounds. A necropsy found a tumor on her ovary, according to a report from Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

AP Photo/Sea Life

Paul the octopus, who gained fame by predicting the World Cup winners, died Oct. 26 at Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul was 2 years old.

AP

Target, an Afghanistan hero dog that found a home in the U.S. with a soldier, was euthanized in November at an Arizona animal shelter after the dog escaped from her yard. Target and two other dogs became a heroes when they alerted soldiers to a suicide bomber at a military base. Target was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show. Target, without tags or microchipping, was picked up by Pinal County’s Animal Control division on a Friday and the owner found Target’s photo on the shelter’s lost/found site Friday evening. However when the owner went to get Target the next Monday morning, he was told Target had been euthanized by mistake.

John Ziomek: AP

Prince Chunk, an enormously fat cat who became famous when found wandering in a South Jersey town after his owner lost her home to foreclosure, died Nov. 21. Prince Chunk’s last owner, Vince Damiani, said the white tabby passed away in his sleep. He was about 10 years old.